Like it or not, I’m an Anglophile; some of my ancestors came from Britain almost 400 years ago and our culture is an outgrowth of theirs. The Brits just held what is kinda-sorta like our midterm elections and neither of the “establishment” parties - Labour and Conservative (Tory) - did at all well.
The big winners were Reform (their MAGA), and the Greens which is similar to our Democratic Socialists. Translation: the right went farther right and the left went farther left. Writing at Sp!ked, Brendan O'Neill concludes:
No one can look at England this morning and deny that the masses have executed a coup against a complacent regime by choosing Reform as the new vessel of their moral hopes.
And who are these people? They’re the Brexit people. They’re the people who, 10 years ago next month, defied virtually the entire political and cultural establishment and opted to seize back Britain’s destiny from the unelected suits of the European Union.
I am happy for our British cousins.
